And this was during a weekday, in pretty miserable weather. From the A.P.:

Several hundred gun rights advocates â€” some toting rifles and holstered handguns â€” flocked to the Statehouse Thursday to oppose weapons bans and efforts to repeal parts of New Hampshire’s expanded stand-your-ground law.

Speaker after speaker rallied the crowd of about 300 to hold firm to their firearms and their right to bear them.

Unbelievably, one of the knee-jerk reaction bills just introduced into the overwhelmingly Democrat controlled State House (by super-schmuck House Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Concord) would scrap New Hampshire’s “Castle Doctrine”/”Stand your ground” law. People would have to retreat from danger, if they live long enough to do so.

Note that the victims of recent massacres had to do that — and failed, because the shootings took place in “gun free zones” so there wasn’t anyone to protect them.

hi Jeff, I heard tonight about plans for widespread rallies in support of gun rights on Feb 23, or .223. I am in Cincinnati, nothing scheduled here yet. their web site ishttp://www.dayofresistance.com/

Mr Cunningham, By all means, rallies in favor of gun rights are a fine idea. But here is the introductory text of the announcement on the link you provided:

“On January 16, 2013, President Barack Obama issued 23 executive actions against your 2nd amendment Constitutional right to bear arms. He did this without the consent of Congress which in itself, violates the foundation of the Constitution and the co-equal branches of government.”

On the other hand, here is the list of the 23 “unconstitutional” executive actions.

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background-check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background-check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background- check system.

4. Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

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